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v. To cause or allow (a substance) to run or fall out of a container.

v. To scatter (objects) from containment: spilled the armload of books on the desk.

v. To shed (blood).

v. Nautical To relieve the pressure of wind on (a sail).

v. Nautical To cause or allow (wind) to be lost from a sail.

v. To cause to fall: The rider was spilled by his horse.

v. Informal To disclose (something previously unknown); divulge: The witness spilled all the details about the suspect.

verb-intransitive. To run or fall out of a container or containment.

verb-intransitive. To come to the ground suddenly and involuntarily.

verb-intransitive. To pour out or spread beyond limits: Fans spilled onto the playing field.

n. The act of spilling.

n. An amount spilled.

n. A fall, as from a horse.

n. A spillway.

n. A piece of wood or rolled paper used to light a fire.

n. A small peg or rod, especially one used as a plug; a spile.

v. To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to pour.

v. To spread out or fall out, as above.

v. To drop something that was intended to be caught.

v. To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.

v. To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.

n. A mess of something that has been dropped.

n. A fall or stumble.

n. A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.

n. A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

n. A slender piece of anything.

n. A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.

n. A metallic rod or pin.

n. A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.

n. One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.

n. A little sum of money.

v. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.

v. To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.

v. To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.

v. To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose.

v. To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter.

v. To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.

verb-intransitive. To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.

verb-intransitive. To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.

To destroy; kill; slay.

To injure; mar; spoil; ruin.

To waste; squander; spend.

To suffer or cause to flow out or become lost; shed: used especially of blood, as in wilful killing.

To suffer to fall or run out accidentally and wastefully, and not as by pouring: said of fluids or of substances in fine grains or powder, such as flour or sand: as, to spill wine; to spill salt.

To let out; let leak out; divulge: said of matters concealed.

Nautical, to discharge the wind from, as from the belly of a sail, in order to furl or reef it.

To throw, as from the saddle or a vehicle; overthrow.

Synonyms Splash, etc. See slop.

To kill; slay; destroy; spread ruin.

To come to ruin or destruction; perish; die.

To be wasteful or prodigal.

To run out and become shed or wasted.

n. A throw or fall, as from a saddle or a vehicle.

n. A downpour; a flood.

n. A splinter; a chip.

n. A little bar or pin; a peg.

n. A slip or strip of wood or paper meant for use as a lamplighter.

n. A small peg or pin for stopping a cask; a spile: as, a vent-hole stopped with a spill.

n. The spindle of a spinning-wheel.

n. A trifling sum of money; a small fee.

To inlay, diversify, or piece out with spills, splinters, or chips; cover with small patches resembling spills. In the quotation it denotes inlaying with small pieces of ivory.

n. plural The thin layers or filaments of cinder in wrought-iron bars of poor quality due to imperfect working of the metal in squeezer, hammer, or roll treatment.

To brace or stay a drift or adit with piles.

v. pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities

n. a sudden drop from an upright position

v. cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over

v. cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container

n. liquid that is spilled

v. reveal information

n. a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction

v. reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail)

v. flow, run or fall out and become lost

n. the act of allowing a fluid to escape

"Some of Obama's top officials said Sunday that the spill is a potential catastrophe and defended the administration's response so far against complaints it has reacted too slowly."

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